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^ Damn if thats the case then my bad. Appreciate if the mods could move my comment to the one thread already existed. Yeah I agree this is THE next big thing in manga. Everything in it are just simply epic.

Also glad that this series won the Best Shonen Manga Category of 2011, it pretty much deserved it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Nah it was a shounen award, it's serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine after all. If it was a seinen manga it would've been in the General category and contend with March comes in like a lion and Chūya Koyama the two seinen mangas to win the General award for this year.

Anyway, I've stopped reading after the male protag turns back into human after somehow changing into a titan...well, it's not like that I don't like this manga, but I just don't feel to read it at the moment

Hmm....maybe I should catch up. I wonder what'll happen when that scary guy that can one-army titan (forget his name ) meet the male protag.

there certainly seems to be some group in the background that wants things to stay the way they are, that knows a lot about the titans, and that has people just like eren. I am not too sure the female titan is his mother. I rather suspect she works for the yet unknown internal enemy. THis whole sortie was obviously a trap layed out by the scouting division leader to find out if some unknown faction wants eren dead , as indicated by him asking eren about the "true enemy" - then there were the murdered research subjects, and then there was that religious fanatic - I don't think his group is the masterminds, I think the cult is being used to further somebody elses goals. The enemy prly hides among the military police or inner powercircles we have not yet been allowed to see. Nasty cliffhanger at the end. looks like the "trap" for information backfired, prly THIS MUCH Titan activity was not anticipated.

As for the commander, I read him differently. I thought he was very much aware of all the various political agendas that got touched upon during the hearing. I also think he has doubts about some humans being involved in some sort of foul play. He seems smart enough to think for himself despite being bound by military protocol and then makes the best use of his orders according to his own notion of what needs to be done. I thought maybe the whole sortie for him was having the goal of finding out if anybody made a move for Eren and how. The research subjects were killed, and that special female titan showed more control than Eren himself - it also found the scouting party easily. Somebody inside is a traitor. Or somebody inside can shapeshift just like Eren. The commander might have suspected something along those lines. I read his question as "not sure if it is as simple as 'humans good, titans evil, Eren, be mindful of what happens around you!'"

... as mentioned in the manga before "such is human nature" ...somebody is playing a very evil play and the scouting legion commander suspected exactly that to be proven - though probably he did not anticipate such a hard reaction by the unknown opponent - at some point soon I hope he'll share his info with Eren and us.

So yeah, I started reading this series a few months back and it quickly became one of my favorites! And yeah, I really like how it's implied that there's some sort of conspiracy behind the titans (methinks that they're actually manmade creations....). And yeah, these recent chapters were definitely all kinds of awesome (before the female titan's appearance, I had actually suspected that the colossal and armored titans were originally human, like Eren). Definitely looking forward to seeing what happens next!

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Originally Posted by felix

I suggest skipping forward a few chapters since it goes on a useless flashback arc.

honestly, with all the underdeveloped characters that exis in this vast world of manga, hell I don't care if they get development once they are dead, AS LONG AS THEY DO GET SOME

good character development is rare... and developing dead characters indicates the mangaka has a healthy sense of sarcasm on that matter - or maybe not, just rambling here

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seriously though, who got developed after dying? I didn't skip chaps, but maybe I read too fast?

also...what if ... *thinks hard* what if dead characters get development in flashbacks that in truth is at the same time development for characters still allive who in the past interacted with the now already dead characters? now that's sneaky, eh?

I liked the flashbacks. It was a nod to a more innocent time in Kyojin ( as innocent as it could be anyway ), and it's always nice to have a more developed world setting. And call it posthumous character development if you would, but the ones who are still alive are the ones who benefited from it the most.

Those trainees are going to need character development anyway, since most of them are in the scouting legion... and it's better off for them to start with a proper slate, instead of grouping them as a 3rd wheel compared to the Eren-Mikasa-Armin trio.

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on another note, I am still confused with having two threads, shouldn't we ask a mod to merge them or something? I mean atm each has like 2 pages only it's no big dealio ? Somebody say something on that

I believe the mod already merge the thread I created with this one since yesterday so only a single one existed.

Don’t know what so bad about the flashback. It showed character developments and flesh them out nicely. Who would’ve thought that Sasha could be that dumb and adorable at the same time. Referring to the potato scene with the military drill instructor.

As for the funny parts anyone notice in chapter 24 when Christa came and brought two horses with her and then picking up Jean, Armin and Reiner? She’s like, glad that they’re okay with her angelic face and guys were thinking like “She’s Godsend”, “Goddess”, “I wanna marry her”. Lol that’s fricking hilarious.

And need more Eren x Mikasa development but that’s imo. Seems like its one sided from Mikasa’s view. Nevertheless the series is already fine the way it is right now. I’m pleased to hear that the tankubon manages to sell more around 4 million copies already, even if this series is considered relatively new.

Just took a peek on animenewsnetwork and turns out SnK vol. 5 comes second in sales for the period from August 8-14 with around 400k, first being the undisputed One Piece and all. This series manage to delivers on its homeground once again.

This series fascinates me. My theory about its incredible success is that we the readers are stunned to read a story, in which humans are overpowered by such difform creatures. That brings an uneasy feeling.
The scenes with the titans are so thrilling, I can understand flashback scenes are in comparison underwhelming, but nevertheless there are some qualities found in character developement and the plot in general with all the factions in the city. I wonder if the author planned that beforehand. The first chapters with a lot of flashbacks made me think he drew chapter after chapter without knowing where to go. It is just an impression though. It was more likely planned from the start.

I don't know what to think of the drawings. Perspectives and body proportions seem off to me in some panels, but the chara design of titans is interesting and a few color pages are good. I see this kind of art in seinen series not really in shounen, so the editor that picked up this manga has some guts